Amazon’s AutoRip function, recently added to UK accounts, is a piece of audio archaeology, mining your physical music purchases from the past 14 years and offering them up to download from various devices (BBC story, MeFi post from the service’s American debut a few months ago) / related: someone help, the overwhelming world of cloud storage.

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The SS Richard Montgomery, lurking just beneath the waves of the Thames Estuary, packed with explosives: ‘In August 2004, a report in the New Scientist magazine said if the ship exploded it would be one of the biggest non-nuclear blasts ever seen and devastate the port of Sheerness, causing up to £1bn of damage.’